Sharp County record., 1887-11-03
TALMAGES SERMON.
HForbidden Honey the Theme Oh
an Interesting Discourse.
The Various Aluring Pitfalls Which May
he Included in the Category, ana the
the Moral Ruin They Lead To-
Safety Only in Obedience.

The various AIurlhS i'i"A''
he Included in the Category, and the
the Moral Ruin They Lead to
Safety Only in Obedience.
For the subject of recent sermon at the
Rrooklyn Tabernacle, Rev. L. DeWlb
Talmage took "Forbidden Honey" the
text being:
Ibid but taste little honey with the end OF
the rod that was in my hand, and, TO- must
die-I Samuel xiv, 43
DR.. Talmage said: The honey bee is
= most ingenious architect, a ChrlSIopner
, Wren among insects, geometer drawing
hexagons and pentagons, treeDooter
robbing the fields of pollen and aroma u"
vondrous creature of God whose
biography, written by Huber ana swami
meridian, is an enchantment for any lover
of nature. Virgil celebrated the bee IN
his fable of AristauS, and Moses, ana
Samuel, and David, and Solomon, ana
Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and ST. Jonn uSeu
the delicacies of bee manufacture as
Bible symbol. A miracle of formation IS
the bee; five eyes, two tongues, the outer
having a sheath of protection hairs on all
sides of its tiny body to brush up tne
= particles of flowers, its flight so stralgnt
that all the world knows of the bee llne'
The honey. comb is a palace such as no
one but God could plan, and the honey Dee
construct; its cells sometimes
dormtorv, and sometimes store
house, and sometimes a cemetery lheSe
winged toilers first make eight strips OF
wax, and by their antenn@, which are TO
them hammer and chisel, and square, and
plumb-line, fashion them for use. Two
and two, these workers shape the wall. IL
an accident happen they put up but
tresses or extra beams to remedy the dam
ace. When about the year 1776 an insect,
before unknown, in the night time attack
ed the bee.hves all over Europe, and the
men who owned them were in vain trying
to plan some thing to keep out the IN
yader that was the terror of the bee-hlVes
of the continent, it was found that every
where the bees had arranged for their
own protection, and built before their
honeycombs an especial wall of wax with
port t-hole through which the bees might
20 to and fro, but not large enough to ad'
nit the winged combatant, called the
sphinx atrOpos.
Do YOU know that the swarming of the
bees is divinely directed? The mother bee
starts for new home, and because OF this
the other bees of the hive get into some
excitement, which raises the heat of the
hive some four degrees, land they must
die unless they leave their heated apart
ments, and they follow the mother bee
and alight on the branch of tree,
and cling to each other and hold on until
a committee of two or three have explored
the region and found the hollow of tree
or rock not far off from stream of water,
and they here set up new colony and
ply their aromatic industries, and give
themselves to the manufacture OF the sac
charine edible. But who can tell the
chemistry of that mixture of sweetness,
part of it the very life of the bee and part
of it the life of the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product was
hanging in the woods of Breth aven dur
ing the time of Saul and Jonatha Their
army was in pursuit of an enemy that by
Gods command must be exterminated
The soldiery were positively forbidden to
stop to eat any thing until the work was
done. If they dsobeyed they were ac.
cursed. Coming through the woods they
found place where the bees had been
busy-a great honey mandatory. Honey
gathered in the hollow of trees until it
had overfowed upon the ground in great
profusion of sweetness. All the army
obeyed orders and touched it not, save
Jonathan, and he, not knowing the mill
tary order about abstinence, dipped the
end Of stick he had in his hand
into the canded liquid, and as, vel.
low, and brown, and tempting, it glOwed
on the end of the stick, he put it to his
mouth and ate the honey. Judgment fell
upon him, and but for special Intervention
he would have been slain, In my text
Jonathan announces his awful mistake:
did but taste a little honey with the end
of the rod that was in my hand, and, 10, must
die
Alas, what mutitudes of people in all
ages have been damaged by forbidden
honey-by which mean temptation-de-
llClOuS anu dIIIuCUlNt, DuO uuuldo ing uhu
destructive
Literature, fascinating but deathful,
comes in this category. Where one good,
honest, healthful book is read now there
are one hundred made up of rhetorical
trash consumed with avidity. When the
boy Oh the cars comes through with pile
of publications, look over the titles and
notice that nine out of ten of the books are
depicting and injurious. All the way
from New York to Chicago or New Or
leans, notice that Objectionable books
dominate Taste for pure literature is
poisoned by this scum of the publishing
house. Every book in which sin triumphs
over virtue, or in which a glamour is
thrown over dissipation, respect for
the marriage institution and less
adherence for the paramour, is a depres-
sion Of your own moral character. The
book binding ma, be attractive, and the
plot dramatic and startling, and the style
of writing sweet as the honey that Jona-
than dipped up with his rod, but your
best interests forbid it, your moral safety
forbids it, your God forbds it, and one
taste Of it may lead to such bad results
that you may have to say at the close of
the experiment, or at the close of mis-
improved lifetime:
did but taste little. honey with the rod that
was in my hand, and 10, must die
Corrupt literature is doing more to-day
fnr ha 1iCrnntinn of Innnncfin tho,,